Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.

* Cypro-Minoan syllabary, a script used on Cyprus

It is descended from the Cypro-Minoan syllabary, in turn a variant or derivative of Linear A.

Literacy was introduced to Cyprus with the Cypro-Minoan syllabary, a derivation from Cretan Linear A.

The practice of writing spread, and tablets in the Cypro-Minoan script have been found on the mainland as well ( Ras Shamra ).

The script used during bronze age Greece is generally known as Cypro-Minoan script.

Zhuyin developed out of a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s and has elements of both an alphabet and a syllabary.

In 1821, he introduced Cherokee syllabary, the first written syllabic form of an American Indian language outside of Central America.

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

The first form of written Greek was not the Greek alphabet as it later became known, but the syllabary known as Linear B, in which one character stood for the combination of a consonant and a vowel.

Furigana are usually written using the hiragana syllabary ; foreign words may not have a kanji form and are spelled out using katakana.

" In their present form, many of the syllabary characters resemble Roman, Cyrillic or Greek letters or Arabic numerals ," says Janine Scancarelli, a scholar of Cherokee writing, " but there is no apparent relationship between their sounds in other languages and in Cherokee.

In the next five years, the Uyaquq's Yugtun script evolved from its original form of pictographs to a syllabary.

Other than the fact that the phonetic glyphs form a syllabary rather than indicating only consonants, this system is analogous to the system of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

Manual alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet, the Ethiopian syllabary and the Korean hangul syllabary-alphabet use handshapes that are more or less iconic representations of the characters in the writing system.

Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history ; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were previously used.

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin-script alphabet ( referred to in Japanese as romaji ).

The Sumerian historical record remains obscure until the Early Dynastic period, when a now deciphered syllabary writing system was developed, which has allowed archaeologists to read contemporary records and inscriptions.

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script ( known as romaji ).

In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for those Japanese language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary is primarily used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words ( collectively gairaigo ).

It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as does the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek.

* Sequoyah-Cherokee native born nearby and created the Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible.

For a time it was the home of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in the language.

Japanese writing had long depended on kanji, but these were now supplemented by kana, two types of phonetic Japanese script: katakana, a mnemonic device using parts of Chinese ideograms ; and hiragana, a cursive syllabary with a distinct writing method that was uniquely Japanese.

Cherokee (; sɑlɑgi ɣɑwonixiʃ ' di ; Oklahoma dialect: ɡawónihisˈdî ) is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people which uses a unique syllabary writing system.

He is most notable for his work in developing Inuktitut syllabics, derived from the Cree syllabary and for writing the first substantial English-Inuktitut dictionary.

* Cypriot syllabary, the ancient syllabic writing system of Cyprus, in use 1100-300 BCE

In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible.

The syllabary became a popular method of keeping records and writing letters.

Although the system adopted by most people for writing Yupik was the Roman-based script of Reverend Hinz, and, in about 1970, the University of Alaska system, Uyaquq's system has been studied because it may represent the same process of evolution from illiteracy to proto-writing to syllabary taken by many ancient written languages, like Chinese and Egyptian, but compressed into a period of 5 years.

Zuckermann ’ s exploration of PSM in Standard Chinese and Meiji period Japanese concludes that the Chinese writing system is multifunctional: pleremic (" full " of meaning, e. g. logographic ), cenemic (" empty " of meaning, e. g. phonographic-like a syllabary ) and simultaneously cenemic and pleremic ( phono-logographic ).

The way the phrase was transcribed in Baybayin, the ancient syllabary used in writing Tagalog prior to the introduction of the Latin alphabet, finally produced the term " Banahaw ".

The first known script for writing Greek was the Linear B syllabary, used for the archaic Mycenaean dialect.

As Daniels used the word, an abugida contrasts with a syllabary, where letters with shared consonants or vowels show no particular resemblance to each another, and with an alphabet proper, where independent letters are used to denote both consonants and vowels.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.

( The system is not limited to alphabets in the strict technical sense ; languages that use a syllabary or abugida, for example Cherokee, can use the same ordering principle provided there is a set ordering for the symbols used.

Linear A seems to have been used as a complete syllabary around 1900 – 1800 BC, although several signs appear earlier as mason marks.

The Cherokee syllabary generally uses dummy vowels for coda consonants, but also has a segmental grapheme for / s /, which can be used both as a coda and in an initial / sC / consonant cluster.

SGA has not had much other official use after that, but Tom Hall invented a syllabary to create a more complex " alien " language used in Ion Storm's Anachronox.

For years, many people wrote transliterated Cherokee or used poorly intercompatible fonts to type out the syllabary.

Outside of the Nile Valley, many of the signs used in the Byblos syllabary were apparently borrowed from Old Kingdom hieratic signs.

Because of this, it is also used as an ordering for the syllabary.

The principle behind alphabetical ordering can still be applied in languages that do not strictly speaking use an alphabet – for example, they may be written using a syllabary or abugida – provided the symbols used have an established ordering.

The charts below show the syllabary as arranged by Samuel Worcester along with his commonly used transliterations.

Although Cypriots were Greeks and their language a dialect of Greek, the Arcadocypriot, they used to write in an older and more difficult system, called Cypriot syllabary.

The number of symbols used in the codex is about ten times higher than any known alphabet ( Némäti counted 792 ), but most symbols are used rarely, so the symbols in the codex might not be an alphabet, but a syllabary, or logographs like Chinese characters.